topic Re: How Many would like a Sky Q for streaming...? in Sky Q

How Many would like a Sky Q for streaming...?

spannernick1 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 18:29:34 GMT

I know have Sky Stream but not the same as Sky Q, Sky Q is better, belive in better... 🙂
Would you like a Sky Q version for streaming... I would, once you used it you would not want to back.

Re: How Many would like a Sky Q for streaming...?

Chodley — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 18:30:40 GMT

I suspect there are some on here who would prefer a "Sky+HD for streaming"

Re: How Many would like a Sky Q for streaming...?

spannernick1 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 18:50:32 GMT

That's the box before Sky Q isn't it...? the black and silver stripe at its front, I had one before Sky Q, Sky+ Guide plus HD channels, the box that was originally made by Amstrad, well they are all made by Amstrad, Amstrad is embedded in to Sky now, it company is still is alive just with a different name, it on company house, it needs to be alive otherwise they would lose the copyright to the ZX Spectrum name and other products made by Amstrad, Amstrad Emaller, Amstrad 464/6128, Amstrad PCWs and PCs. Amstard name is now owned by Alan Sugar again but used for advertising on the Internet, would of been better used for retro computers they made remimaged in mini form.

Re: How Many would like a Sky Q for streaming...?

spannernick1 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 19:00:27 GMT

Re: How Many would like a Sky Q for streaming...?

TimmyBGood — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 21:57:50 GMT

@spannernick1 wrote:

Would you like a Sky Q version for streaming...

Not going to happen. 'Q without a dish' actually got launched in a couple of the Sky European territories (Austria and Italy) in 2017-18 and was originally intended for UK release in 2018 but this got overtaken by the Comcast Corporation acquisition of Sky Group late that year: Sky Stream is a Comcast product and realistically Q is on its way out.

https://www.skygroup.sky/article/award-winning-sky-q-to-launch-without-a-satellite-dish

https://www.whathifi.com/news/sky-confirms-no-satellite-dish-required-late-2018

Re: How Many would like a Sky Q for streaming...?

AndrueCope — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 13:25:33 GMT

It's something I'm thinking about at the moment. All I want is the same channel choice and the ability to skip past adverts. It sounds like the alternatives will suffice albeit with a £5 pcm surcharge.

But I'm not going to leave Q until I have to. My box is still working (though recently it's started doing odd things like the video output sometimes going to black screen after exiting playback and is sometimes slow to render the program synopsis). But if it fails I'll just get Sky to replace it. I'll be here until they turn the lights out 😊

Re: How Many would like a Sky Q for streaming...?

spannernick1 — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:55:04 GMT

One way of doing it is update the firmware on the SKY Q boxes so it can get a signal fron a dish or frlm the internet so it can do both... 🙂
Do not see why it could not do that, it uses the internet for downloading TV Programmes and Films plus catch up so its partly there already.

Re: How Many would like a Sky Q for streaming...?

PandJ2020 — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:01:45 GMT

@spannernick1 wrote:
One way of doing it is update the firmware on the SKY Q boxes so it can get a signal fron a dish or frlm the internet so it can do both... 🙂
Do not see why it could not do that, it uses the internet for downloading TV Programmes and Films plus catch up so its partly there already.

In theory, yes. In practice the hardware may not be capable.

Re: How Many would like a Sky Q for streaming...?

AndrueCope — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:18:36 GMT

@PandJ2020 wrote:
@spannernick1 wrote:
One way of doing it is update the firmware on the SKY Q boxes so it can get a signal fron a dish or frlm the internet so it can do both... 🙂
Do not see why it could not do that, it uses the internet for downloading TV Programmes and Films plus catch up so its partly there already.
In theory, yes. In practice the hardware may not be capable.

It also assumes the Sky have the resources to commit to the project. Based on my experience of Sky over the years I think that programming resources are very scarce.

Re: How Many would like a Sky Q for streaming...?

TimmyBGood — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 09:46:12 GMT

@spannernick1 wrote:

Do not see why it could not do that, it uses the internet for downloading TV Programmes and Films plus catch up so its partly there already.

Quite possibly, but the point I made above is that Q was the last product from Sky as an independent British company, and Stream is a Comcast Corporation platform. Internal company politics, finances and stockholder pressure will beat technology every time: Q is a legacy system designed a decade ago and fundamentally based on an end-of-life media distribution method, with Comcast having no particular incentive to maintain or adapt it (and a whole bunch of reasons not to)

Re: How Many would like a Sky Q for streaming...?

Chodley — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 09:36:36 GMT

@spannernick1 wrote:
One way of doing it is update the firmware on the SKY Q boxes so it can get a signal fron a dish or frlm the internet so it can do both... 🙂
Do not see why it could not do that, it uses the internet for downloading TV Programmes and Films plus catch up so its partly there already.

Every software decelopment project in the history of the world sounded easier in concept than the reality of the implementation.

and that's assuming there's a sound business reason for even trying.